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Orwell as Public Choice Socialist

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  • May 6, 2015
  • #Economics #PoliticalEconomy
Michael Makovi
@mikewinddale
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www.econlib.org
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George Orwell is famous for his two final fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two works are sometimes understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orw... Show More

George Orwell is famous for his two final fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two works are sometimes understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been his intention. Orwell’s criticisms were directed not against socialism per se but against the Soviet Union and similarly totalitarian regimes. Instead, these fictions were intended as Public Choice-style investigations into which political systems furnished suitable incentive structures to prevent the abuse of power.

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Bryan Caplan @BryanCaplan · Nov 15, 2022
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Since @mikewinddale is getting so much attention for his new JPE piece, let me call attention to his excellent 2015 article on Orwell:
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